A Beautiful Mind (movie)

Like Russell Crowe did in "A Beautiful Mind," Benedict Cumberbatch brings some much-needed humanity to "The Imitation Game," which revolves around a lot of complicated math formulas that most audiences wouldn't care to understand. Cumberbatch stars as British mathematician Alan Turing, who helps to break the German enigma code machine in WWII. Working with other code-breakers played by Matthew Goode, Allen Leech and Keira Knightley, he eventually devises a precursor to the computer, after positing that the only way to outsmart a machine was with a smarter machine. But all that plot is just on the surface, while Cumberbatch's performance goes to some deeper,...

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